Taleban fighters have seized local government offices in Afghanistan's south-eastern province of Zabul. A local spokesman said police in Khan Afghan district had withdrawn because they did not have enough ammunition. Meanwhile, in Helmand province the Taleban are reported to have been forced out of the town of Sangin by Nato and Afghan troops. President Hamid Karzai says his government has been having meetings with the Taleban for "a long time". In fresh violence on Friday, a suicide bomber has killed six people near parliament in the capital, Kabul. Serious damage The Taleban have been forced out of the town of Sangin in Helmand province, the governor of Helmand told the BBC. ... http://news.bbc.co.uk

State police captured a third bank robbery suspect Friday connected to the deadly shooting of an FBI agent who had been tracking the men.The agent's team had fired on the armed suspects outside a bank branch in Readington on Thursday, but the FBI said the suspects did not shoot back and the agent may have accidentally been killed by one of his own colleagues."Preliminarily, information suggests the agent may have been fatally wounded as a result of the accidental discharge of another agent's weapon during a dynamic arrest situation," the FBI said in a statement released Thursday night.Two of the robbery suspects were captured shortly after the shooting. The third fled on foot and was arrested Friday morning in Branchburg, within a couple miles of the bank, State Police Lt. Gerald Lewis said....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,264504,00.html

Contaminants that led to a massive recall of pet food could have been added intentionally, according to one theory being considered by the Food and Drug Administration."Somebody may have added melamine to the wheat gluten in order to increase what appears to be the protein level," the FDA's Stephen Sundlof told CNN on Friday. "Wheat gluten is a high-protein substance and by trying to artificially inflate the protein level, it could command a higher price. But that's just one theory at this point."Sundlof said the agency is virtually sure the animal deaths linked to tainted pet food were caused by something that contaminated the wheat gluten, a normal ingredient of the food.The FDA has found melamine, a component of fertilizers and plastic utensils, in the gluten, but that may not be the culprit, said Sundlof, director of the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine....http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/06/pet.deaths/index.html?eref=rss_us

Dubai, the Middle East's fastest- growing city, is running out of office space, according to the commercial property broker CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. The lack of space is making it more difficult for foreign companies to profit from the sheikdom's economic boom, said Nicholas Maclean, managing director of the firm's business in the region. Some U.S. companies have agreed to occupy premises that won't be built for two years, he said. ``There's a desperate shortage,'' Maclean said in an interview. In some cases, companies are ``running their operations from other locations until the space eases up'' in Dubai, the most noted of the seven emirates that make up the U.A.E. The United Arab Emirates economy, the Arab world's second- biggest after Saudi Arabia, grew 8.9 percent in 2006 as the country earned an average of $65 per barrel of oil, about 22 percent higher than the previous year. That's helped draw in companies such as Baker Hughes Inc. to Dubai, ...http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aAu7rArkl91w&refer=exclusive

Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's firm Tracinda has made a $4.5bn (£2.2bn) cash offer for Chrysler, the ailing US arm of Germany's DaimlerChrysler. Tracinda, formerly a key shareholder in Chrysler, said it wanted to "build and strengthen" Chrysler. Chrysler management and United Auto Workers could be "equity partners", said private investment firm Tracinda. DaimlerChrysler confirmed that it was in talks with potential partners over Chrysler, but made no other comments. Tracinda was the main shareholder in Chrysler when it merged with DaimlerBenz in 1998. Mr Kerkorian, who had opposed the merger, then tried to sue the firm in 2000, claiming that DaimlerBenz organised the deal to buy Chrysler in such a way that meant he lost billions of dollars. The case was rejected. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6531629.stm

Saddam Hussein's government did not cooperate with al Qaeda prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the U.S. Defense Department said in a report based on interrogations of the deposed leader and two of his former aides. Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his assertions of al Qaeda links to Saddam's Iraq, contending that the terrorist group was operating in Iraq before the March 2003 invasion led by U.S. forces and that terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was leading the Iraqi branch of al Qaeda. Others in al Qaeda planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "He took up residence there before we ever launched into Iraq, organized the al Qaeda operations inside Iraq before we even arrived on the scene and then, of course, led the charge for Iraq until we killed him last June," Cheney told radio host Rush Limbaugh during an interview Thursday. "As I say, they were present before we invaded Iraq." However, a declassified Pentagon report ...http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/06/iraq/main2655316.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_2655316